Particle Astrophysics with Milagro

该提案要求提供资金，以允许马里兰州小组分析来自Milagro探测器的数据，参与探测器的操作，并负责集中数据管理的某些方面。 Milagro的科学目标是：对已知耀斑源Markarian 421和Markarian 501的TeV排放进行首次全年监测。对北方天空进行首次观测，寻找稳定源和偶发源;对-100 GeV到许多TeV的伽玛暴辐射进行首次灵敏搜索;探测蟹状星云的VHE辐射，独立的技术。探测具有高度意义的月球阴影，并用它来校准探测器的能量响应，并执行高分辨率的搜索。能量宇宙反质子。探测太阳的阴影具有高度的意义，并利用它来连续监测太阳磁场的横向分量的强度。执行最灵敏的搜索蒸发的原始黑洞。测量地面-在更高的能量范围内，在更短的时间尺度上，太阳日冕物质抛射产生的质子事件比以往任何时候都可能。

This proposal requests funding for allowing the Maryland group to analyze data from the Milagro Detector, to partake in the operation of the detector, and to take care of certain aspects of centralized data management. Milagro's scientific goals are:Perform the first all-year monitoring of TeV emission from the known flaring sources Markarian 421 and Markarian 501. Perform the first surrey of the northern sky for steady and episodic sources.Perform the first sensitive search for emission from GRBs from -100 GeV to many TeV.Detect VHE emission from the Crab and measure its energy spectrum with a new, independent technique.Detect the shadow of the moon with high significance and use it to calibrate the energy response of the detector and to perform a search for high-energy cosmic antiprotons.Detect the shadow of the sun with high significance and use it to continuously monitor the strength of the transverse component of the solar magnetic field.Perform the most sensitive search for evaporating primordial black holes.Measure ground-level proton events produced by solar coronal mass ejections in a higher energy regime and over shorter time scales than ever before possible.